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Sunday, 23 March 2014

Andrew O'Hagan Demolishes Assange


Andrew O’Hagan’s demolition job on WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, can be found in the London Review of Books (March 6, 2014). O’Hagan’s 27,00o-word piece seems more like a non-fiction novella than a garden-variety magazine article. At this very moment it is probably the hottest piece of writing in the Western world. O’Hagan, hired by a publishing company to ghost Assange’s “autobiography”, came to know his subject during 2011. His conclusion? “I’ve never been with anybody who made me feel so like an adult. And I say that as the father of a ten- year-old.”

To continue reading the article, click this link:

http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2014/03/andrew-ohagans-demolition-julian-assange/